33 Cuban Refugees Detained By Patrol

July 14, 2000|Staff Reports

South Florida

U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 33 Cuban refugees shortly after they reached land early Thursday near Big Pine Key.

The agency also plans to criminally charge two unidentified men it says smuggled the group into the United States. The men were traveling aboard a 30-foot Monza speedboat not far from where the refugees landed, officials said.